Forthcoming Civil War Novel? ("Mason-Dixon Line")

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:37 PM, A.P. Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> well this was from a book publish'd in 2002 by Harold Bloom...?

Edited/introduced by Bloom, @ any rate, do you mean?  Viz. ...

http://chelseahouse.infobasepublishing.com/BookList.asp?pageID=2&gradeType=2&ISBN=079107445

http://www.amazon.com/Pynchons-Gravitys-Rainbow-Critical-Interpretations/dp/1555460623

Both are anthologies of older material culled from elsewhere, both
first published in 1986, the first one reprinted in 2003, see, e.g.,
...

http://www.vheissu.name/biblio/sub.php?b=3

According to Bill Roeder in Newsweek in 1978: "Thomas Pynchon, the
reclusive author whose last book was "Gravity's Rainbow" in 1973, has
two novels in the works. One is said to be a science-fiction thriller
inspired by Pynchon's passion for "Mothra" and other Japanese horror
movies. The other book involves the Mason-Dixon line, and Pynchon is
now in England looking into the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah
Dixon, the British surveyors who established the Pennsylvania-Maryland
boundary in the eighteenth century. As part of his previous research,
Pynchon walked the 233-mile length of the Mason-Dixon line."

http://www.vheissu.name/slsl/index.htm

Thanks, Michel!  At any rate, Bloom was no doubt referring to that
article in the OG 1986 eds., and has never bothered to update his
essays when reprinted, so ...